Pin-tag.



C. A. CONRAD.

PIN TAG! APPLIGATIoI HLED 1mm-1s, 191s.

1,127,862. Patented Feb.9,1915.

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resented Feb. 9, i915.

Application filed Jecember' 18. k1913. Serial No. 807,506.

To all yw/Lc'nt it may concern Y Be it known that I, CHARLES A. CONRAD,

a citizen of the United States, residing at` Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New` York, have invented certainv new. and useful Improvements in Pin-Tags, of

which the following is a full, clear, and eX-' act specification.

This invention relates to tags, and has for its object to provide means for attaching the tag to cloth or other articles without danger of scratching or piercing the lingers, either in attaching the tag or in handling the cloth or article after the tag is attached to the same.

Another object is to provide means for attaching the tag very quickly to the article desired and in such manner that it will not become accidentally detached although it may be readily taken ofi" when necessary7 or it is desired to use it again.

The invention is designed especially for use in marking clothing or garments, but it is obvious that it may be employed in many other places to advantage.

The invention will be first hereinafter described in connection with the accompanying drawings, which constitute a part of this specification, and then more specifically delined in the claim at the end-of the speciication.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein similar' reference characters are used throughout the several views to designate corresponding parts Figure l is a front view of a tag made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an edge view showing the pin hooks open, as when the tag is to be attached to a garment or the like. Fig. 3 is an edge View showing the pin hooks closed into the form of an eye, as is done after at tachment in order to prevent accidental detachment and the scratching or piercing the fingers. Fig. 4: is a rear view of the tag. Fig. 5 is a front view thereof, showing how the hooks may be turned around into the plane of the tag or card after attachment to a garment or the like, and Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the tag with the pin hooks open, as they are supplied to the trade.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, A designates the pin hook or fastening device, which is preferably made of a single piece of wire bent upon itself to form two parallel members which are passed through the upper portion of the card B at a. The middle or looped portion a of the fastener is bent overy the upper edge of the card, as clearly illustrated, inorder to hold said fastener rigidly or against turning on the card. The end portionsof the wire yare bent into the form of parallel pin hooks a? having pointed ends or extremities a3 which normally are inclined slightly outward, as best illustrated in F igs. 2 and 6. By reason of this normal inclined position of the pointed extremities of the pin hooks, they may be readily hooked into the garment or other article while grasping the card, it being unnecessary to touch the pins with the lingers in order lto accomplish this iirst step in the operation of attachment. After the hooks have been passed through the article, the pointed extremities of the hooks may be bent into the form of eyes, or closed, as illustrated in F ig. 3, by pressing upon the rounded looped portions of said hooks adjacent their pointed extremities without touching said points themselves. Thus, it will be seen that it is unnecessary to bring the fingers into contact with the points of the fastening device in either step of the attaching operation, so that there is no danger of scratching or piercing the fingers. Either before or after the hooks have been closed into eyes, they may be turned around, preferably in opposite direction as illustrated in Fig. 5, so as to bring them into the plane of the card B and leave no protuberances on the surface of the garment or other article.

It will be noted that while there is no danger of the pin hooks becoming disengaged from the article to which they are attached, when not desired, yet they may be easily opened from closed or the eyeshaped position in order to permit the tag to be removed when necessary or it is desired to use said tag over again. In thus opening the hooks, they may be grasped at their looped portions, so that even in the operation of removing the tag, there is no occasion for touching the points of the hooksy with the lingers.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is A tag comprising a card and a fastening device made of a single piece of wire passed through the margin of the card and having pointed hook-shaped projections which are rounded in contour, having wide rounded bends extending beyond the plane of the side of the card on Which the points are arranged, the pointed extremities of each hook-shaped projection terminating beyond the edge of the card and extending in an inclined position with respect to the plane n of the card aWay romsaid plane lprior to in the plane ofthe card after attachment,

. Copies of this patent may be obtained 'for whereby the points are entirely out vof the Way of accidentally being engaged by the 15 lingers of persons handling the article of merchandise to Which the tag is thus attached.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in they presence yof 20 tWo attesting Witnesses. l f

CHARLES A.k CONRAD.

Witnesses:

` PHILLP DEAN,

EMMA KRAKE.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents Washington, D. C. 

